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Habib Abdesslem; Abhinan Wongkittiporn – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study examined givenness in discourse via passive constructions in research articles. While it is commonly held in grammar books and grammar classes that the passive voice is the counterpart of the active voice, the present study argues that Argument movement in passive constructions can act as a syntactic device contributing to sound…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Research, Morphemes, Grammar
Selinker, Larry – 1988
Six papers on interlanguage are presented. The first, "Language Transfer," experimentally tests Robert Lado's contrastive analysis principles on the transfer of language skills to second language acquisition. The second paper, called "Interlanguage," builds on this work in discussing the structured nature of interlanguage and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries